I'm looking to build a new rig later this year. I started to peice parts of it together so I could track how prices change from now until then: and a question dawned on me.
How should I setup my hard-drives if I'm doing program development and gaming on the same machine?
I'll be running Vista Ultimate, Visual Studio 2005, and some games (a new MMO, some RTS, and a flight game).. not sure if that matters!
My thought was to have two hard drives: a smaller 36 gig for the OS and VS2005, and a larger 250+ Gig for my games and personal media (music/pics).. The interface will be SATA-II.. but it seems like there are a ton of 10k RPM SATA but not many SATA-II..
Whats the speed difference between SATA-300 7200 RPM and SATA-150 10k RPM?
I guess my question is, Is there a recommended setup for hard-drives when thinking of drive speed.. or should I just get one single massive sata-300, 7200 drive for everything.. or would Vista run better on its own 10k drive..? Do games generally need lots of IO speed ?
I don't need any non-default raid setups, I'll be doing monthly backups with DVD.
Thanks in advance and sorry if this has been posted elsewhere
How should I setup my hard-drives if I'm doing program development and gaming on the same machine?
I'll be running Vista Ultimate, Visual Studio 2005, and some games (a new MMO, some RTS, and a flight game).. not sure if that matters!
My thought was to have two hard drives: a smaller 36 gig for the OS and VS2005, and a larger 250+ Gig for my games and personal media (music/pics).. The interface will be SATA-II.. but it seems like there are a ton of 10k RPM SATA but not many SATA-II..
Whats the speed difference between SATA-300 7200 RPM and SATA-150 10k RPM?
I guess my question is, Is there a recommended setup for hard-drives when thinking of drive speed.. or should I just get one single massive sata-300, 7200 drive for everything.. or would Vista run better on its own 10k drive..? Do games generally need lots of IO speed ?
I don't need any non-default raid setups, I'll be doing monthly backups with DVD.
Thanks in advance and sorry if this has been posted elsewhere